Chapter 29: Golden Wheel Lock (Part 3)
The rainstorm had stopped at some point. In the dark sky, wisps of sunlight silently sprinkled down, shining on the towering Emperor Jun, unexpectedly presenting a kind of Buddhist meaning of withering and flourishing.
However, the golden ball in its hand rolled towards everyone without mercy! The golden ball was nearly ten meters in size, occupying the entire passage. Outside, there was a tsunami-like tide of rats, and inside... within eight or nine seconds at most, everyone would be crushed into a pile of meat patties.
Eighth second!
Boom boom boom... The huge weight made the entire underground tremble, and countless small stones trembled and flew into the air. Only by experiencing it in person can you understand the intense life-and-death crisis like Mars hitting the Earth. Every rotation of the golden ball seemed to press on people's hearts, and everyone's pupils almost shrank to the size of needles. Breathing was stagnant. In the cave, only the unconscious chattering of teeth remained.
There was a second of silence, and Jiang Xian was the first to move. He quickly reached into his clothes and the exquisite dice flew into the air with a whoosh and hit a stone pillar with a thud.
The eight-armed arhat took a deep breath, which was extremely long and only went in but not out. His clothes were puffing up desperately, and in his blood-red eyes, a golden ball like a meteorite was reflected. With destruction, smoke and dust rose up on both sides, and he rushed forward without hesitation.
At this second, Chu Ziyi and Ling Xiaozi turned around at the same time and ran towards the back like crazy.
At this moment, the remaining fourteen people stood there like clay sculptures or wooden carvings. The golden ball grew bigger and bigger in their pupils. However, their knowledge reserves and exploration experience were not enough to support them to come up with a solution.
Sixth second!
Jiang Xian bit his lips until they bled, then he squatted and kicked his body, jumping nearly two meters up. His hand tightly grasped the string of the exquisite dice.
At the same time, the Eight-Armed Arhat shouted loudly, raised her hands, and two hooks flew out from her sleeves, one in the south and one in the north, and sank into the cave ceiling. The two hooks suddenly opened, and in the middle was a hook as thick as a little finger.
The fourteen people finally moved. The golden ball was less than twenty meters away from them! For the first time, screams broke out in the cave. The fourteen people rushed madly in all directions.
The fourth second!
Jiang Xian tightly grasped the silk thread of the exquisite dice. The thread was less than one millimeter thick, but it held his body up. Then he did a somersault in the air, and with the full force of his waist and abdominal muscles, he hung himself upside down like a caterpillar.
Boom boom boom... Amidst the violent tremors, the anxious Eight-Armed Arhat finally heard two ding-ding sounds. That was the sound of the thrown hook sinking into the surrounding stone walls. As the two ends were positioned, the rope in the middle suddenly straightened. In this lightning moment, the fat body of the Eight-Armed Arhat jumped high, grabbed the rope, and hung in the air like a sloth. Then he immediately stretched out his hand, his voice hoarse, and roared to Hong Si Niang below: "Pull!!"
Snap! As if they had cooperated hundreds of times, Hong Si Niang grabbed the other person with her hands. Her body was like a boneless body, and she climbed onto the Eight-Armed Arhat's back.
Chu Ziyi and Ling Xiaozi were not far from the wall. They gritted their teeth, their facial features were a little ferocious. Chu Ziyi was obviously in his sixties, but at this moment he ran faster than Ling Xiaozi! The wrinkles on his face seemed to be blown by the wind. Ling Xiaozi's whisk was almost raised straight up, and the footsteps of the two seemed to be walking on snow without leaving any traces. As they ran at full speed, they floated up.
Two seconds countdown!
Several players were frightened by the golden ball that rolled in front of them and collapsed. They rushed around like crazy. Then, there were heart-wrenching screams. The rest had already blocked their way with their hands and screamed in despair.
Countless rats rushed towards them like a tide. They didn't even last three seconds before they screamed and rolled into the rat swarm. The creepy gnawing sound suddenly sounded. And more people followed the crowd without any clue, screaming and continued to run back. However, their speed was much slower than Ling Xiaozi and Chu Ziyi. The golden ball was only ten meters away from them!
Swish... Jiang Xian pulled the line in his hand, like a silkworm pupa, and finally climbed to a position ten meters above the ground with his legs clamped on the silk line. At this time, he felt that his vest was already wet, and even his legs, arms, waist and abdomen were all sore and sore due to the excessively violent movements.
However, he had no time to care about these things. Instead, he immediately looked down.
Hong Si Niang and the Eight-armed Arhat had already escaped from danger. Chu Ziyi and Ling Xiaozi had already rushed to the wall. At the same time, they both shouted loudly. Ling Xiaozi grabbed the whisk with both hands and pulled it. A short sword like autumn water came out and pierced into the wall without hesitation. Then he pulled hard with his arms and kept tapping the wall with his feet. Then he stabbed again and pulled again!
In just two seconds, he actually used his sword to set up . When he was over nine meters, the muscles in his legs suddenly swelled, and with a loud shout, he pushed his legs hard against the cave wall, did a backflip, and fell backwards.
On the other side, Chu Ziyi did the same thing. He suddenly extended two iron claws from his opponent's hands and used both hands to climb up like a gecko. When he was also over nine meters, he roared with a determination of life or death, and his body also flipped backwards.
One second!
Crack , crack, crack... a sound of grinding that made one's teeth ache came from below. In just seven seconds, the golden ball had already crushed all the way! Internal organs, bones, muscles... were instantly crushed into a ball. Several players didn't even scream, and even the sound of bones breaking was drowned out by the roar of the golden ball. They were instantly turned into meat patties.
Blood spurted out like a fountain on both sides, some of it went upwards, and a few drops even sprayed onto Jiang Xian's face.
The massacre had begun. Wherever the iron ball passed, there was a hell of flesh and blood... The remaining team members who saw this scene almost went crazy and rushed to both sides desperately.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" What greeted them was a sea of rats all over the mountains. They had no time to open anything. They were instantly submerged in darkness. Only miserable cries echoed in this Shura field.
At this moment, the bodies of Chu Ziyi and Ling Xiaozi were like fish leaping out of the Dead Sea, drawing graceful curves in the air, and below them, the golden ball just rolled by.
Zero seconds.
Boom! ! ! With a loud bang, the golden ball hit the cave wall heavily. With a dull bang, a big hole was knocked out of the cave wall. And inside... the lights were bright!
Tap, tap, tap... At the same second, the survivors all fell to the ground. As soon as he landed, Ling Xiaozi's legs softened and he almost fell down. Fortunately, Chu Ziyi grabbed his arm. The two of them leaned against the wall and began to breathe heavily at the same time. Their teeth were trembling.
The others were not much better either. Jiang Xian cursed inwardly and wiped his hair. Even the roots of his hair were sweaty. The Eight-Armed Arhat could clearly see that there was a large wet patch on his camouflage uniform. Hong Si Niang was rubbing his hands.
After a full minute, the hearts of the survivors finally calmed down. They finally had time to look towards the center of the road.
Hell of flesh and blood.
Fourteen members of the exploration team... none of them survived. From fifteen meters away , there was a pool of flesh. The golden ball rolled over, forming a blood-red road. There were more than ten meters of broken hands and limbs, and the whole scene looked extremely bloody.
Boom boom... After the golden ball smashed open the cave, the dull roar continued to be heard, as if reminding the survivors that they had stepped into a territory they should not have entered.
"Heh..." Jiang Xian closed his eyes and exhaled with a trembling breath. Ling Xiaozi panted and scolded with a smile: "Why are you still holding on to the string? The matchmaker?"
"I can't move my hand." Jiang Xian smiled bitterly. Because he had gripped too tightly just now and his nerves were too tense, his whole hand was now stiff.
No one spoke after that.
Too many people died... Even though it wasn't me who died, I couldn't avoid the feeling of sympathy. The scene was so tragic that no one spoke for two full minutes.
In the silence, suddenly, a creaking...crunching...sound like crushing cardboard was heard.
That was definitely not the sound of a normal rolling. Everyone's nerves, which had just relaxed, tensed up again. The next second, with a dull bang, the cave seemed to tremble. Three seconds later, a strange sound of rushing replaced everything.
At this moment, the rats around them all let out a shrill cry and crawled into the cave like crazy. The eyeballs that filled the entire cave, like red stars, suddenly flickered and scattered in all directions.
It was as if... a switch was turned on, and something... poured out.
"Did you hear that?" Jiang Xian spread his fingers and spoke solemnly.
Yan Luo opened his eyes, and no one could relax every minute and every second.
"Chained mechanism!" Ling Xiaozi's fingers were still trembling, and he reached into the black hair and combed it vigorously. He said in a hoarse voice: "The golden wheel lock is the end of this mechanism and the beginning of the next one. This sound is obviously a large-scale mechanism being activated. We don't have time to wait here!"
Chu Ziyi's eyes swept around, and only coldness and despair remained in his heart. His three teams... many of them had followed him through life and death several times. Who would have thought... just at the door, there would be no one left.
However, a hatred for revenge suddenly spread from his heart.
"So many people died... My team three is finished. If I don't clear this damn place, I won't be able to sleep even in my dreams!!" He gritted his teeth and adjusted his backpack: "Let's go!!"
"I want to see what's ahead!"
Jiang Xian grabbed his backpack and rushed to the front. Then came Hong Si Niang and the Eight-armed Arhat, with Chu Ziyi and Ling Xiaozi following behind. The five of them almost used their fastest speed and rushed towards the gap created by the golden ball.
Bang... Taking a step forward, even though Jiang Xian was prepared, he couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
Right in front of them, there appeared a beautifully decorated underground tomb passage. It was about thirty degrees and fifteen meters in diameter. The walls were made of huge stone slabs, and the whole was blue-gray and covered with dust. The outlines of the pictures could be vaguely seen. The blue oil lamps on the wall swayed in the wind, as if illuminating the road to hell.
They opened up the pages of history and faced the secrets of thousands of years ago.
A sense of vicissitudes, simplicity and majesty came towards me. A cold wind blew in, bringing with it a stale smell. The light pulled out a shadow like a ghost.
Entering here means that they have entered the real cemetery! After a thousand years, they will face the master who built the entire cemetery, who may be the top master of various industries at that time!
